The Wistful Witness

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The hand of Sergeant Elias Thorne, stiff with the cold and the mud of the Aisne, gripped the iron compass in his pocket until the metal bit into his palm, a sharp, familiar pain that grounded him in the chaos of the barrage. It was November 1918, the war’s final, grinding weeks, and the air tasted of sulfur and wet earth, a thick, cloying damp that seeped through his wool tunic and settled in...

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